I remember when I first discovered this fact, my grandmother had me in her womb. I was blown away and simultaneously it made all the sense in the world.

The more energetically sensitive I got, the more I could feel the generational trauma carried through my matrilineal line.

One day I told my grandmother this fact and she too was shocked. She didn’t know. I could sense in that moment our connection deepen.

I’ve always known that not feeling good (insert perfect) enough ran deep in my family. Even now when I tell people that I’ve struggled to acknowledge my beauty, I see blank stares; they don’t get it. But it doesn’t matter what your wound is, whether society sees it as real or not, it’s true for you and it can come from a multitude of places. I am diligent every single day to look at myself in the mirror and see beauty, even more so to close my eyes and feel beauty and now, I actually believe it. I can look at photos from years ago and remember how I thought they were disgusting and now all I see is my inherent worth. And there are days I still judge and criticize. I’m human. But mostly I’ve landed into such peace.

When we love ourselves with all of our perceived flaws, we heal generations of women in our family before and after. At least three, but I believe seven - in both directions.The work you do today to elevate your consciousness and see the beauty that exists around you and within you impacts everyone.

The human psyche is made up for various parts. According to Carl Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, it consists of The Ego, The Personal Unconscious, Complexes, the Collective Unconscious, The Self, Persona, The Shadow, Anima/Animus, and Individuation.

Much like the body, the psyche is a self-regulating system that is maintaining balance as much as it can throughout the day.

And, just like the body, if we consume too much toxicity via information, relationships, thoughts, programming, etc., we tip out of balance.

When we tip out of balance that can look like but isn’t limited to; neurological disorders, alcoholism, drug use and abuse, and addiction of any kind. We do this as a way to cope with that which is hidden from our conscious awareness.

Think of your body like a computer:

If you keep placing unwanted files into your trash bin but never empty that trash bin what happens?

The computer runs very slowly or crashes.

The same is true of our body.

If we feed it trash it can crash and if we didn’t have a way to eliminate that trash ( 💩 ) we would die.

The former is true for the psyche, and in extreme cases, so is the latter.

If we are inputting a ton of data every single day from our external reality and especially if what we consume is toxic, then we need a way to “empty our trash.”

And while the psyche is self-regulating (dreams are a way the psyche analyzes and releases) it can only do so much without our conscious effort.

If you want to know what you’re processing, look at your triggers. Our psyche externalizes in archetypal projections, functioning as a secondary self or selves that contribute to the whole.

This means we meet people who trigger our shadow (also a part of the psyche) and they illicit a strong emotional response.

The best way I have found to reprogram these triggers is through my own work with Healing with Archetypes (yes I’m a student of my own work!) as well as through Lacey’s work @tobemagnetic

The moment we actually become sovereign - King and Queens of our destiny - is the moment we start to take responsibility for our energy.

I am working through major wounding every single day. I am right there in the trenches with you, I just may have been on this path for a longer period of time.

You deserve to touch down on the truth of what you are. You are infinitely worthy.

It’s not because you are too busy. It’s not because you don’t have enough money to startor enough knowledge or more space or perfect circumstances. It’s not because you aren’t ready - you’ll never be ready, it’ll never be perfect and none of us know how much time we have. You can stop comparing your failures to other’s success. You can stop wishing you were anybody else but you. You can stop blaming the algorithms or people or situations or the universe. You were not dealt a bad hand.

Mental illness is a loaded word, category, and descriptor, and many people have many different opinions about it.

I often talk about how I believe that people deemed mentally ill are the extremely sensitive, psychic and fragile minds of the world who often lose their footing in reality, and sometimes can't distinguish between what's real and what's illusion. But there's another aspect of mental illness that I want to discuss, one that seems obvious yet eludes us; repressed emotions.

When we are holding on to belief systems, wounds, and trauma, and when our relationship to these feelings is one of unconscious denial out of fear we can't process them, we tip out of balance.

The body, being the miracle that it is, is always giving us feedback on what is laying dormit in our systems and needs love and attention.

When we fail to give it the attention it needs to surface, release and heal, it shows up in a multitude of ways signalling it is time.

This is why when people are on antidepressants, anti-anxiety, or any other types of medication that hinders the body’s ability to cope with these emotions, the pharmaceuticals themselves lose their efficacy and new ones need to be administered.

What one needs to truly discover and heal is the repressed emotions lingering, and I know it can be challenging, scary, and sometimes even feel impossible to go through, but it will assist the body in the healing process. It will allow different neurons to fire; it can reprogram, upgrade and regenerate once there is space.

When we process the trauma hiding in our tissue we create physical, emotional, spiritual, even mental space for newness because those repressed emotions aren't then unconsciously running our lives; we aren't spending every moment guarded with defense mechanisms to protect ourselves because we've outed what we thought needed protection, we've brought the darkness to the light, and darkness can't live there.

Healing with Archetypes is way to go deep within your repressed emotions so you can detoxify and begin to remember who you truly are.

What inspired you to create Chalice Grove and what does that name mean to you?

Chalice was the name of the street I lived on for years, and after doing some research into the word I knew it had to be part of my business, not only because of the rich meaning, but also because the business was birthed from that house.

Chalice represents the feminine, receptive, vulnerable, nurturing energy that is responsible for creation and is much needed on this planet if we are to survive. The chalice in iconography is represented by the inverted triangle and I have included both in the logo because the "right-side-up" triangle represents the active, supportive, protective masculine energy that the world needs to survive: the yin and yang balance that is required for a predominately patriarchal paradigm to shift. Grove represents the connection with nature that is needed to heal. Grove is a community rooted together that blossoms.Chalice Grove therefore represents embracing the totality of your being, the light and the dark, good and bad, masculine and feminine, physical and metaphysical and the inextricable connection to all that is.

There's a neatly organized and compiled list of gemstones on your website that you love working with. Do you have an absolute favourite ?

That is a tough question to answer as I LOVE so many gemstones but yes, I do have one in particular that I am called to from the very depth of my being; that stone is Larimar. When I first found the stone I was looking up stones that work in conjunction to Kundalini because I was about to take my teacher training and wanted something for the journey from student to teacher. When I heard the stones name a strange feeling washed over me, when I saw it I cried. This does not happen to me, usually. It is a high vibrational stone and its price reflects its beauty and power. I waited to buy some but when I did, and once they arrived, I cried again opening it. I always joke now that Larimar is my spirit animal ;)

As a designer and amateur photographer, I admire the photography across your website and social media platforms. What created this incredible clean and beautiful essence ? How did you envision these elements coming together ?

I'm not a photographer, at least not professionally, but I do love beauty and know that part of my purpose on this planet is to add more beauty to this world; I have an eye for it and I think that is why I can create not only jewelry and words, but also photos in an elegant and beautiful way.

I have anxiety myself and have crystals that help me along with meditation and yoga. For anybody else going through or have gone through anxiety, what advice would you give them ?

As amazing and wonderful as crystals are, they will not heal you from anxiety. It's the same as thinking pharmaceuticals will cure you from your emotional wounds. The only thing that heals is you deep-diving into your emotional body. Yes, crystals can help, they can even assist with opening energy channels in the body, but at the end of the day there is no quick fix. The only way to cure anything is to get to the root cause of why it is showing up in the first place, stay curious about what it is teaching you, and have a willingness to see things differently. Only then can we unfold into who we truly are and understand that we are not our suffering, we are something beyond.

Your malas and their unique and beautiful designs are absolutely exquisite. How do you come up with your creations?

First off, thank you! The designs come to me when I'm at my desk, or even right before I fall asleep. Often they come to me in a meditation or even a yoga class. The nugget in this is just to start, find what brings you joy, what is expansive to your soul and allow miracles to flood into this natural space of awareness.

For someone looking into starting their own shop, what advice would you give them?

Just start. It doesn't have to mean you quit your job and go all in. Start small, one foot in front of the next, and just move towards the direction of what ignites your heart and soul. I started Chalice Grove part-time, as a hobby! And then eventually, once I gained a bit of traction, I quit my job and went all in! Trust that you have what it takes and that even if your hobby business doesn't turn into what you are meant to do, it will open doors into where you are going.

The Yogini Path Mala brings us home to the Women we are meant to be. The time to embrace our Divinity is NOW, the dark and the light, and transcend limiting beliefs that are no longer in service to the Highest Good. Awaken to your inner Warrior, Mystic and High Priestess. Affirmation: I accept that I am more powerful, more courageous, and more brave than I believe myself to be.

The world will give you many opportunities to not love yourself to believe there is something that needs fixing that you are broken fragmented unlovable and unworthy your ego will give you many thoughts that say how pathetic how much of a failure how insignificant and inconsequential you are there will be more than enough moments where you'll feel lost and confused bewildered and betrayed even by your own heart where you'll look into the mirror and see every missed opportunity every flaw; the ugliness of your own skin but none of it will be true none of the darkness you perceive will be real only the lessons imbued in them the gifts and guidepost leading you withinto a soul that wants nothing more than acceptance of your totality every single part of you perfect created in the reflection of the lightmanifested in the polarity of human form and when we remember this when we touch down on the fertile soil of our blossoming only then can we truly see how all of it is beautiful and boldly add more radiance by showing up as we are.

Imagine for a moment, that you are a work of art; that each and every stroke, contour, line, shape, form, color and movement was calculated just so.

And imagine that your eyes were conjured with concise thought as portals to your inner landscape, your smile manifested from delight and delirium; your fingers and toes, thoughtfully curated with agility and precision and detail.

And imagine your nose and ears carefully placed, the hairs on your body strategically stroked by bristles on brush, and your belly and your legs and your back and chest all mindfully molded, all perfect living works of art, composed from the perspective of totality and marveled at by the master.

Imagine that your organs and your glands and your cells and your nervous system, planned, organized, drafted and made manifest.

And your heart, your beautiful holy heart, carefully envisioned by an artist who desired to see such depth and expansion, such feeling and openness, such intricacies and detail that it took days, the sky changing from hues of violet, blue and pink to clusters of clouds that poured onto the canvas, creating all of the sacred corridors that allow for this muscle to melodically beat.

You see, you are a piece of art.

You were born perfect.

You have always been perfect, even if you've forgotten.

And you are a gift to this world with a gift to give this world; so make each second a color, each minute a brush stroke, each moment a miraculous work of art to birth into this world the painting of a lifetime.

And you, sweet one, finally answered, finally came up and out and I wondered how long you had been hiding down there until you whispered into the hollow of my inner child.

And she sobbed, she wailed, vibrating loose a hurt so ancient that all women gathered.

And I felt the repression, the oppression, the degradation, the misogyny of a predominately patriarchal paradigm that suppresses and suspends the soul of women, the empowerment of women, the rule of women and I remembered how powerful I was at six years old and how that power was abused, betrayed, belittled and shut down.

This isn't about how many people follow you on Instagram, or like your posts.

This isn't about your patterns and wounds and pain and sorrow.

This isn't about you, not in the way you think it is: you are everything and you are nothing.

You have come here to shift the consciousness of the planet and you do so through prayer, through thoughts, through words, through action; so make each action a living prayer, make each word a loving word, make each thought an uplifting thought, each prayer a sacred container for all to heal.

Healers need healing too; just because you still fall apart from time to time from the weight of the world does not mean you can't show up bigger and bolder and brighter than ever before in your healing business.

Going through shit makes us human, it's how we choose to deal with what we go through that qualifies us to hold another's sacred beating heart while they trust us with their weight.

If you've never felt the world crush you, holding space for another's crushed world requires a deep and profound amount of empathy, one that not many people can hold.

Of course you don't need to identify with the wounded healer, in fact as this blue planet continues to shift, I believe, there will be less and less people who choose to go through the flames first. I think future generations of light workers will bypass the pain and suffering and turmoil and stay in their light most of the time. They will be able to heal from an authentic place of pure expansion, compassion and strength.

But I didn't choose that path.

I chose the archetype of wounded healer. This means I have gone through some pretty fucked up shit and I'm proud of myself because I know the courage it took to pull myself out. It is an absolute miracle I am where I am today. I've battled perfectionism, drug addiction, abuse, unworthiness, betrayal, addiction to approval, loss, mental illness, rejection, body dysmorphic disorder, abandonment, and more.

As a healer I'm not condoning the path of the broken; the path that glorifies darkness, or embodies the importance of wounds, but what I am celebrating is the fact that we are all gloriously unique.

I will attract people who have gone through similar experiences and if your path differs, you will attract people like you.

There is no right way or wrong way to live this life, there is only the way that you choose.

None of us truly, fully and honestly know why we are here. We may have had profound esoteric experiences that argue we do, but the unknown is reason enough to be alive, and we don't have to attach anything else to it.

So let yourself unfold into the space you come alive.

If you feel alive in your pain then let it shape you and move on, and share the story of overcoming in the face of adversity.

If you feel alive in your light then share it wherever you go, don't you dare let anybody dim your sparkle.

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